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Your eye movements reflect your internal search patterns.
Visual search time increases linearly with set size specifically during serial (conjunction) search, whereas feature search is conducted in parallel with a near-zero slope.
The original claim incorrectly treats the linear relationship as a universal property of visual search, rather than a defining feature of only one of the two search modes identified in the paper.
Your focus is a series of jumps, not a continuous line.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Treisman and Gelade, 1980, Cognitive Psychology
- What the check found
- The claim erroneously generalizes the linear search time characteristic of conjunction search to all visual search, failing to account for parallel feature search described in the source.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
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